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    • Title:Assembly Codes : The Logistics of Media / edited by Matthew Hockenberry, Nicole Starosielski and Susan Zieger.
    • ISBN:9781478013037
      9781478009733
      9781478010760
    • Publication:Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
    • Manufacture: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
    • Copyright notice date: ©2021.
    • Physical Description:1 online resource (260 pages).
    • Links:Online book
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    • Summary:"Assembly Codes connects the critical study of logistics to the field of media and communications studies. It documents how logistics-the techniques of organizing and coordinating the movement of materials, bodies, and information-has had a substantial effect on how media is produced, distributed, and consumed, ranging from the logistics of film production to the construction of digital networks. It reveals how logistical technologies have generated new ways of seeing, and new aesthetic and performative practices. Additionally, the essays reveal how media technologies themselves, from phone systems to software, underpin global production"--
    • Variant and related titles:Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
    • Format:Book
    • Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
    • Contents:Some assembly required / John Durham Peters -- Introduction: The logistics of media / Matthew Hockenberry, Nicole Starosielski, and Susan Zieger -- Habits of assembly / Stefano Harney and Fred Moten -- Inter: Storage solutions -- "Shipped": paper, print, and the Atlantic slave trade / Susan Zieger -- Inter: Logistical magic -- Pan-African logistics / Ebony Coletu -- Inter: The march of data -- The pulse of global passage : listening to logistics / Shannon Mattern -- Inter: beneath the Great White Way -- Colonization's logistical media: the ship and the document / Liam Cole Young -- Inter: Always already assembled -- "Every man within earshot" : auditory efficiency in the time of the telephone / Matthew Hockenberry -- Inter: Logistical software -- Logistical media theory, the politics of time, and the geopolitics of automation / Ned Rossiter -- Inter: "It's loud and it's tasteless and I've heard it before" -- Carry that weight : the costs of delivery and the ecology of vinyl records' revival / Michael Palm -- Inter: Sound from a music container -- Supply chain cinema, supply chain education : training creative wizardry for offshored exploitation / Kay Dickinson -- Inter: Forklift cinema -- The politics of cable supply from the British Empire to Huawei Marine / Nicole Starosielski -- Inter: Who watches the watchers? -- Laugh out loud / Tung-Hui Hu.
    • Subjects: Communication and technology.
      Technological innovations--Social aspects.
      Mass media--History.
      Mass media--Economic aspects.
      Mass media--Political aspects.
      Mass media--Social aspects.
      Communication--Social aspects.
      Mass media--Social aspects.
      Mass media--Political aspects.
      Mass media--Economic aspects.
      Mass media.
      Communication--Social aspects.
      Communication and technology.
    • Genre/Form:History.
    • Also listed under:Zieger, Susan Marjorie, editor.
      Starosielski, Nicole, 1984- editor.
      Hockenberry, Matthew Curtis, 1982- editor.
      Project Muse. distributor